putting my whiskers back on
This past weekend, I shaved off a two week old goatee and it turns out that was much to the chagrin of my daughter. The next morning she was cuddling with me, grabbed my chin, did a double take, gave me a very serious stare, and said, “Daddy, where’s your whiskers?”
“I took them off sweetheart.”
“Put them back on.”
Ergo, I’m growing a beard at least until next Thursday when Dana and the kids head down to Atlanta. This trip down there will be very hard on me. The first time I’ll be with out my short people for a long time since the separation. I have to schedule myself busy, because when I go too long without seeing them, especially since the separation – I get so down.
Viv slept over last night, Bubba had a cold and keeping the kiddos apart will hopefully prevent my short girl from getting his cold. Viv is now REALLY into playing hide and seek and having a catch. We read some stories after playing and then she went to sleep (after a few princess stories and several thousand stanzas of You Are My Sunshine and Qué Será, Será).
I got some work done on the Flash conversion of the Kuma redesign. Which
I’ve come to a conclusion, Flash 8 on a Mac sucks ass. Supposedly to be addressed in Blaze (Flash 8.5). It’s horrible, from what I’ve read Adobe (Macromedia) isn’t investing time in making their Mac IDE usable, which blows. The project I’m working on has Mac fonts and after doing some reading about conversion to PC fonts, I’ve found that the designer wasn’t using True Type or Type 1 fonts, ergo I can’t convert them. So I need to find font substitutes and do this all on my PC.
December 8th, 2006 at 9:53 am
“Put them back on.”
That’s awesome.
Now would be a good time to whine about how much I want a Mac, wouldn’t it?
December 8th, 2006 at 9:59 am
Flash is my only complaint right now honestly, I dig my iMac with a tenacity unforeseen by mankind.
December 8th, 2006 at 10:32 am
That sucks about Flash. One thing I’ve always hated about Flash is that it’s supposed to be cross-platform, but that’s never been the case to the extent they’d like you to believe. That is even true of the browser plug-in, so I’m not surprised that the IDE is no better.
It sounds like you’re getting to spend some great time with the kids … awesome. It sucks you’ll be away from them, but you should do some music during that time!
December 8th, 2006 at 11:31 am
That is too funny about the whiskers….I love it when kids are so innocently blunt
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December 8th, 2006 at 11:34 am
heh.. put them back on
teehee
good suggestion from the peanut gallery
…
busy is good
getting out is good
creating is good
its hard when they are away
…
December 8th, 2006 at 1:39 pm
apertome, yeah, my plan is to hopefully ebay the omnistudio and look into that m-audio firewire 410 (on ebay as well) then I should be able to rock out with my cock out…erm, i’ll record some music.
December 8th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
Kids are awesome! I love it when they say exactly what they are thinking!
December 8th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
yeah Viv liked to hold my whiskery chin while she lays in my lap and watches TV. she’s very zen and tactile.
December 9th, 2006 at 4:02 pm
Kids are usually very strident about their favorite adults changing things like hair and whiskers. My closest school kids ever told me in no uncertain terms that I was not to shave my beard. Ever. Since I’ve been retired, I cut down to a goatee, sent them pictures and not one of them even mentioned it. WTF? Neither did my own children who are adults. I think I’d have to get a facial tattoo before they’d say anything.